Carl O'Brien reports this morning that the draft heads of a new Children and Family Relationships Bill will be published next month. The Bill will propose that same-sex couples (in a civil union) be allowed to adopt.

The couple entered into the parternship in the UK in 2006 and moved to Ireland subsequently. Ruadhán also notes in the piece that 1,000 same-sex couples have entered into civil unions since tha Civil Partnership Act became law.

10:21

Loyaltybuild, the company at the centre of a major data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of people, has taken a half-page ad in this morning's Irish Times, presented as an open letter from the company's general manager.

In the letter, the manager, Peter Steenstrup, says that all Loyaltybuild clients have been given full details of which customers have been impacted and how they've been affected.

Steenstrup says they are working around the clock with clients, Data Protection Commissioner and the Gardaí to "learn from this".

10:21

A half-page ad in today's Irish Times by Loyaltybuild.

10:41

Here's a story that'll have the people of South Dublin reaching for the smelling-salts this morning...

Fiona Gartland reports that a proposal to build Traveller accommodation on a site in Mount Merrion (with views of Dublin Bay) is about to go out to public consultation by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

The Mount Anville site is one of 11 listed to provide 48 units of accomodation.

Exclusives don't remain exclusives for long, especially in this internet era. Many journalists find stories they've worked on lifted and used elsewhere without credit or citation. In some cases journalists are credited, or at least the earlier publication is referred to. But it's rare that stories are literally copy-and-pasted though.

That said, Roy Greenslade over on the Guardian's website has written about what appears to be a rather blatant piece of plagarism by a leading UK newspaper website.

As widely expected, Independent News & Media has announced a capital rights issue this morning, to raise €40m. As part of the rights issue Denis O'Brien's stake in the media company will remain at 29.9% but Dermot Desmond's will increase from 6.4% to 15%.

An information memo from Minister for Sport Leo Varadkar on the world cup bid is on the agenda for discussion at the weekly Cabinet meeting.

Government sources said on Sunday an independent study conducted by Deloitte had shown that around €800 million would be injected into the Irish economy by an extra 377,000 visitors in 2023 if the bid is successful.

Minister Varadkar has taken to the twitter machine this afternoon to confirm the report.

I spoke with Michael McGrath this afternoon who told me that the post in question was brought to his attention early on Saturday and he immediately deactivated his page on Facebook. McGrath told The Irish Times that he was not aware of the origin of the screenshot, or whether he was a victim of a hacking of his Facebook account.

McGrath said he would not be reactivating his Facebook account until he established what exactly happened.

16:44

1,500 jury summonses are to be sent out with the expectation that 500 people will be considered for inclusion on the jury in the case of three former Anglo executives Sean Fitzpatrick, Willie McAteer and Pat Whelan.